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I remember all the Kindle-only kludges I had to devise in 2011 and 2012 (not that Adobe's own support for epub2 was much better). But after KF8, I held out hope that the epub standard and proprietary standard would move closer. Indeed for a few years that seemed to be the case, and I even was able to use a common stylesheet for both kindle systems and epub-based systems. I fear that is no longer becoming possible anymore. If the css media queries supported by Kindle are mostly proprietary and undocumented, then the two systems will continue to diverge.
I have used media queries mainly to scale/resize/position images; on android and ios based systems, they seem to have more support. It's the reading systems on the e-ink devices (as opposed to the e-ink simulations on Kindle Previewer) that have always been the problem.
I think there is a need is for a mechanism to adjust layouts depending on the size of the display. With images it is particularly hard because max-width is not supported.
Sure maybe we could differentiate between kf8 and mobi using amazon's current media queries, but display size is a much bigger concern for me.
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